Photos of Current Events in the Economics Department

Jim Poterba presents Peter Temin with a map of the Roman Empire at the departmental celebration of Peter's retirement, May 2008.

Michael Greenstone's 14.42 Environmental Economics class receives a tour of the MIT Power Plant from plant engineer Seth Kinderman, May 2008.

Nancy Rose receives a special GEA Award for 2008 Graduate Placement from Greg Fischer.

Glenn Ellison and Anna Mikusheva, co-winners of the 2008 Graduate Economics Association Teacher of the Year Award.

Reguant Rido awards Esther Duflo the GEA's outstanding thesis advisor award for 2008.

Reguant Rido congratulates Jose Tessada, one of the co-winners of the 2008 Graduate Economics Association Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Reguant Rido congratulates Alp Simsek, one of the co-winners of the 2008 Graduate Economics Association Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

Michael Powell presents 2008 GEA Teacher-of-the-Year Award to Anna Mikusheva. Elena Baskakova looks on; co-winner Glenn Ellison was not present.

Emmanuel Saez (Ph.D. '99) of Berkeley during his visit as the Spring 2008 Department-wide seminar speaker.

Ken Wang (SB '71), Donald Marron (Ph.D.'94), David Wyss (SB '66), and Paul Joskow at the New York Economics Alumni Breakfast, April 2008. Dr. Marron, who has been nominated to the Council of Economic Advisers, was the guest speaker.

Spring 2008 UEA Lecturer Gary Loveman (Ph.D. '89), CEO of Harrah's Entertainment, with Jo Duh '08, UEA President, and Olivier Blanchard (Ph.D. '77).

Josh Angrist and current undergraduate economics majors at the UEA Open House, March 2008.

Olivier Blanchard and his grand-daughter Eloise celebrate his receipt of the Legion d'Honneur, February 2008.

Department Head Jim Poterba at a UEA-sponsored "Lunch with Economics Faculty" in February 2008.

Visiting Professor Jean Tirole (Ph.D. '81) receives the Gold Medal of CNRS, the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, in December 2007. From left: Arnold Migus, CNRS director general; Valerie Pecresse, France's Minister of Higher Education and Research; Tirole; and Catherine Brechignac, President of CNRS.

 

Professor Larry Christiano of Northwestern delivering 2008 IAP Lectures on Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models.

Economics Visiting Committee member Ken Wang '71, Grace Koo '92, and Killian Professor Paul Joskow at New York City Economics Alumni Dinner hosted by Grace Koo in January 2008.

MIT Reception at the 2008 Allied Social Science Association meetings in New Orleans: American Economics Association President Avinash Dixit (Ph.D. '66) with 2007 Nobel Laureate Roger Myerson and Lord Nicholas Stern, author of The Stern Report on global climate change.

MIT Reception at the 2008 Allied Social Science Association meetings in New Orleans:  From left, Amy Finkelstein (Ph.D. '01), Mara Berman (Ph.D. '03), 2007 John Bates Clark Medal winner Susan Athey, Catherine Mann (Ph.D. '84), Nancy Rose (Ph.D. '85), and Leemore Dafny (Ph.D. '01).  

Esther Duflo (Ph.D. '99) at the award ceremony for the 2007 TIAA-CREF Paul Samuelson Prize for Research on Lifetime Financial Security, where she and her co-authors (from left) Jeffrey Liebman, Peter Orszag, and William Gale, along with Emmanuel Saez (Ph.D.'99, not present), received the Certificate of Excellence.

WEL-Central Bank Network Meeting at MIT Faculty Club, December 2007: From Left, Nelson Sobrino (Banco Central do Brasil), Edouard Vidon (Banque de France), Charles Bean (Ph.D. '81, Bank of England), Olivier Blanchard (Ph.D. '77), Arvind Krishnamurthy (Kellogg School - Northwestern, Sloan Ph.D. '98), Carsten Detken (European Central Bank), Ricardo Caballero (Ph.D. '88) and Martin Summer (Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Austria).

Associate Department Head Jon Gruber presents Paul Joskow and his wife Barbara Chasen with a print commissioned during the Great Depression by the Works Progress Administration as Paul prepares to move to New York and take up his duties as President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, December 2007.

Professor Nancy Rose's Freshman seminar on "Economics of Mutual Funds" visits MFS, a Boston-based mutual fund company, November 2007.

Federal Reserve Governor Frederic Mishkin (SB '73, PhD '76), UEA Fall Speaker, November 2007.

Paul Samuelson delivering remarks at memorial service for E. Cary Brown, October 2007.

SHASS Dean Deborah Fitzgerald, Dr. C. C. Chen (Ph.D. '66), Professor Kristen Forbes (Ph.D. '98), and Department Head Jim Poterba at the October 2007 New England Economics Alumni Breakfast.

Graduate Economics Association Fall Barbeque, September 2007: Professor Ivan Werning with GEA Co-Chairs (and cooks) Michael Powell and Tatyana Deryugina.

Panel Discussion on "Subprime Lending, Contagion Effects, and Financial Market Volatility," October 1 2007: From left, Professor Bill Wheaton, Dr. Thomas Daula '82 of Morgan Stanley, Visiting Professor Paul Willen of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (standing), Dr. Gregory Hawkins '76 (Ph.D. Sloan '82) of Oak Island Investments, and Professor Paul Samuelson.

MIT Economics, captained by Professor Jon Gruber (SB '87), faces Harvard Economics, captained by Lawrence Summers (SB '75), in summer tennis challenge.

Jim Poterba, Peter Temin, Daron Acemoglu, Egyptian Finance Minister Youssef Boutros Ghali (Ph.D. 1980), Dick Eckaus, and Associate Provost Philip Khoury at MIT, July 2007.

Josh Angrist receiving an Honorary Doctorate from the Rector of the University of St. Galen, Switzerland, June 2007.

 

Nobel Laureate Robert Solow with Heikki Rantakari, Ph.D. '07, winner of the Robert M. Solow Graduate Student Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Research.

 

New Ph.D.s with Department Head Jim Poterba after the Ph.D. Hooding Ceremony, June 2007. 

 

MIT President Susan Hockfield, lead donors William and Joan Porter, and Sloan Dean Richard Schmalensee (MIT Economics S.B. 1965, Ph.D. 1970) at the ground-breaking for the E62, the Porter Management Center, a new building that will house the Sloan School starting in 2010. 

2007 GEA Teacher of the Year Co-Winners Glenn Ellison and Mathias Dewatripont (photo in background is the late Professor Evsey Domar.)

Graduate Economics Association Co-Presidents Carmen Taveras (left) and Nirupama Rao (right) with Suman Basu, 2007 winner of the GEA Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.

 

Abhijit Banerjee with MIT Alumni Club of New York officers (from left) Cristina Dolan (President), Ken Wang (Past President), and Tom Halket (Chairman of the Board), April 2007. 

 

MIT Celebrates the creation of the Gregory K. Palm Professorship of Economics: Professor Glenn Ellison, the first holder of the Palm Professorship, MIT President Susan Hockfield, Greg Palm, and MIT Provost Rafael Reif. 

 

MIT President Susan Hockfield congratulates Jon Gruber on his receipt of a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellowship, MIT's highest teaching honor. 

Don Layton '72, Department Head Jim Poterba, Harvard University Professor Robert Merton '70, Denis Bovin '69, and Ken Wang '71 at MIT Economics Dinner in New York City, February 2007.

Nobel Laureate Robert Merton, MIT Ph.D. 1970, addresses MIT Economics Alumni on the changing nature of global risk sharing.

Dick Eckaus, Ford Professor of International Economics Emeritus, receives the Great Cross of the Order of Prince Henry the Navigator from Portugal's President Anibal Cavaco Silva, in recognition for his advisory services to Portugal's economic policy-makers.

 

Paul Joskow receives honorary doctoral at University of Paris-Dauphine, January 2007.